MARAWI CITY -- Supporters of Butig opposition mayoralty candidate Potresam Macadato rushed to the town hall to protest the transfer of vote-counting machines (VCMs) and ballots from the Municipality of Butig to the Provincial Capitol. Army troops guarded the glass walls which were broken down by...
Photo from the 5IB, PA ILIGAN CITY -- Five Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group members were killed in a clash with troops belonging to the 5th Infantry (Duty Bound) Battalion on Wednesday (April 27) in the hinterlands of Barangay Ragayan, Butig town in Lanao del Sur. The troops launched a massive...
Visiting a community of sewers in Lanao del Sur Friday, April 1, Vice President Leni Robredo asked voters there to give the same support they gave her in 2016 elections which led to her victory. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo courtesy of VP Leni Media Bureau) During a dialogue with the Bamboo...
DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur--The distance from here to Marawi City is 285.2 kilometers--a distance that presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos gladly covered as he moved between campaign sorties in Mindanao. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Lakas-CMD Media) Marcos and his running mate Davao...
MARAWI CITY -- The Joint Task Group Haribon belonging to the 103rd Infantry Brigade successfully overran the fort or stronghold of combined forces of Dawlah Islamiyah (DI)-Maute Group under Abu Zacharia and DI-Hassan Group Maguindanao in the hinterland areas of Barangay Ilalag, Maguing town Lanao...
Contrary to allegations now circulating on social media, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) clarified Thursday, March 3, that the target of the recent combat operations in Maguing, Lanao del Sur were members of the Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) and Maute Group (MG), not the Moro Islamic Liberation...
Another suspected terrorist has been killed in the continuing pursuit operation of the military against the Islamic State (IS)-inspired Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) in Maguing, Lanao del Sur on Wednesday, March 2. (Courtesy of Western Mindanao Command) Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr., commander of the...
ILIGAN CITY -- Western Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr. confirmed that three local terrorist group members were killed in an encounter with government forces in Maguing, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. While conducting combat operation in Barangay Ilalag, Municipality of...
ILIGAN CITY -- Two Dawlah-Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) terrorist members were killed in a military operation launched by the Joint Task Group Haribon against the DI-MG group in Brgy. Ilalag, Maguing, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday, March 1. The Army troops encountered some 60 armed DI-MG members at 7:50...
“Yes po.” This was presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo’s response on Saturday, Jan. 29, to critics questioning her earlier remark that she and her team have been to Marawi since 2016, which was before the May 2017 siege. Vice President Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores/MANILA...
Gen. Dionardo Carlos, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Saturday, Dec. 4, to look into the bombing of a transmission tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines’ (NGCP) in Maguing town of Lanao del Sur. “The investigation will establish what really...
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) granted a P115-million term loan to install six solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) in Taraka, one of the largest municipalities in Lanao del Sur. The SPIS will irrigate 1,200 hectares of agricultural lands and provide potable water to 26 barangays...
